Book review: Mob Rule Learning

Mob Rule Learning: Camps, Unconferences and Trashing the Talking Head. By Michelle Boule, Medford: Cyber Age Books, 2011, paperback ISBN 978-0-910965-92-7, 230 pages

Book review: Reading Groups, Libraries and Social Inclusion: Experiences of Blind and Partially Sighted People, by Eileen Hyder

Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 102 pages. ISBN-13 1 978 14094 4798 6. £60.00

Conference Reports: Session 6: Virtual learning: Can the drawings of students identified as dyslexic or dyspraxic reveal visual indicators that might inform future teaching strategies in the studio? Quona Rankin, Dyslexia Coordinator/Tutor, Royal College of Art

Summary of a presentation at the 2012 ARLIS conference held in Londo

A novel idea... reading groups as community outreach

Jenny Townend and Fiona MacLellan describe a University of Northampton project which has set up reading groups in local community groups to raise literacy levels and aspirations, and to nurture a passion for readin

Conference Reports: Web 2.0, virtual worlds and students' visual learning. Dr Julia Gaimster, Associate Dean, Academic Graduate School, London College of Fashion (UAL)

Summary of a presentation at the 2012 ARLIS conference held in Londo

Conference Reports: Digital futures and JISC collections, by Catherine Grout, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

Summary of a presentation at the 2012 ARLIS Conference held in London

Research active

The authors talk about how the library and learning services team at the University of Northampton are promoting practitioner research. This included staging a conference – one of the first to feature a whole programme of research activity from a single academic library